Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
(This article builds upon a previous one published at Catholic Insight on December 9, 2018 under the title Trojan Horse in the City of God. The principal difference is that here is stressed the organic development of the clash between atheistic Communism and the Catholic Church over a hundred-year period.) Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad,[…]
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. (John 1:14)
Cardinal Zen has it right on Vatican II – it is a light for our times, read rightly, in accord with tradition and the hermeneutic of continuity. I wonder what those who want to get rid of the Council, or at least sections thereof, realize what the effect of that may be. Like Voltaire, but[…]
WOJTYLA INSTITUTE 2020: THE FOUR LAST THINGS The Wojtyla Summer Institute is moving online for 2020! This year’s theme is “The Four Last Things”, featuring live online lectures from Alex Schadenberg, Dr. John Gay, Dr. Christine Schintgen, John Paul Meenan and Scott Nicholson, as well as a free online public lecture from renowned author and artist[…]
Palestrina’s Missa Lauda Sion, from his setting of Mass for four voices, published in 1582: https://youtu.be/Uq4-BgseDrU And Antonio Vivaldi’s Lauda Jerusalem, composed in 1739:
Taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. (Mt. 14:19). ⧾ The healing of the sick and the miraculous feeding of the multitude prefigure the miracle that is the Mass[…]
The feast described by the prophet Isaiah in today’s first reading, with its “wine, milk and rich food,” was for the Jews a symbol of the messianic era in which Solomon’s kingdom would be re-established by the long-awaited Messiah.[1] This expectation points to something deeply rooted in the human psyche in the near-universal desire for[…]
Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears – of everything that concerns you. (Saint Alphonsus Ligouri, +1787)
Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God. (Saint Ignatius of Loyola, +1556)
In the early morning hours of July 30th, 1945 – fifteen minutes after midnight, to be precise – in the last days of the World War, an American aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Indianapolis, was struck by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine. Germany had already having surrendered the previous April, but the Asian theatre of[…]
